Below is a release video for the Colorado Rapids’ 2019 away kit. It includes custom text and graphics, with a new crest designed for the release of the kit. It has some cool instrumental music. It has action footage of a couple people snowboarding in Colorado, who are talented enough to do that and dribble a soccer ball with their snowboard at the same time. At this point, I’m hooked. This is a good reveal video, one that could only make sense for a Colorado-based team, and clearly a marketing department spent good time and effort creating it.

But then the video is intercut with pictures of the players modeling the new kit itself, and…it’s white.

There’s the Rapids crest. There’s some maroon lettering. And the rest is just a whole lot of white.

Maybe you missed that particular reveal video. Don’t worry, though. If you saw DC United’s new secondary, or those of FC Dallas, Minnesota United, the New England Revolution, and FC Cincinnati, you...